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A peaceable and temperate plea for Pauls presbytery in Scotland, or, A modest and…A peaceable and temperate plea for Pauls presbyterie in Scotland, or, A modest and…
A peaceable and temperate plea for Pauls presbytery in Scotland, or, A modest and brotherly dispute of the government of the Church of Scotland wherein our discipline is demonstrated to be the true apostolic way of divine truth, and the arguments on the contrary are friendly dissolved, the grounds of separation and the independency [sic] of particular congregations, in defence of ecclesiastical presbyteries, synods, and assemblies, are examined and tried / by Samuel Rutherfurd ...A peaceable and temperate plea for Pauls presbyterie in Scotland, or, A modest and brotherly dispute of the government of the Church of Scotland wherein our discipline is demonstrated to be the true apostolick way of divine truth, and the arguments on the contrary are friendly dissolved, the grounds of separation and the indepencie [sic] of particular congregations, in defence of ecclesiasticall presbyteries, synods, and assemblies, are examined and tryed / by Samuell Rutherfurd ...
London: printed for John Bartlet, 1642London: printed for Iohn Bartlet, 1642
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5. Conclusion, It is not lawful to separate from any worship of the Church for the sins of the fellow-worshippers, whether they be officers or private Christians.
5. Conclusion, It is not lawfull to separate from any worship of the Church for the sinnes of the fellow-worshippers, whether they be officers or private Christians.
1. Because Scribes and Pharisees, 1and the Church in Christs days was a most perverse Church, the rulers perverted the Law, Mat. 5. 21. denied that hatred and rash anger was a sin, ver. 22. or heart adultery a sin. Made the commandment of God of no effect by their traditions, Mat. 15. 6. polluted the worship with superstition ⟨p. 133⟩and will-worship, ver. 7. 8. Mark. 7. 6, 7, 8. said it was nothing to swear by the Temple, devoured widows houses, made their proselytes children of damnation, Mat. 13. 14, 15, 16. were blind guides, filled the measure of their fathers wrath, slew the Lord of glory, 1 Cor. 2. 8, 9. killed and crucified the Prophets, were blind guides, and the blind people followed them, and slew the Lord of glory also. The Priest-hood was kept by Moyen, Caiaphas was High-priest that year. But Christ by practice and precept forbade to separate from this Church. Ergo, &c, The assumption is clear. Mat. 23. They sit in Moses his chair, hear them,